Monday, August 24, 2009

U.N. Says 1 Billion People Are Hungry Worldwide (Most Ever)!

The number of hungry folks on this planet Earth is estimated at a staggering 1 billion people! The U.N. further says that it has never seen so many hungry individuals with additional 100 million people expected to go hungry this year!

That is shameful when so much food is thrown into the garbage. I worked in the dining commons in college and we were forced to throw away pounds of uneaten food EVERY DAY. This was only one dining commons at one college, so I cannot imagine how many pounds of uneaten food are thrown away worldwide each day while people starve.

Systemic problems - such as weak infrastructure and dependence on rain - are to blame for poor nations' near-stagnant production.

Bad roads in rural areas, lack of proper food storage facilities and a lack of irrigation infrastructure continue to keep farmers in poor countries from producing more, Diouf said.

Why does these types of quasi-governmental entities like the U.N. always blame the various symptoms such as lack of infrastructure and food storage facilities instead of blaming the actual causes that prohibit nations from having these things? Most developing nations are handicapped financially due to usurious loans and financially given by the international banks in the false name of charity and public benefit.

As a result, these nations must use their viable resources to pay interest monies to the international bankers when these resources could be used as tools to help feed the population. If developing nations were allowed to grow without outside international influence and theft, then there would be many less hungry people in this world.

Source: Daily Mail

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